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Finding the index to a non-specified character

Let's say for example I have a string
thisIsThisTuesday Day
I want to find the index of all the capital letters, test if there is a space before it, and if not insert one. I would need the index of each one.
At least from what I can see indexOf(String) will only produce the index of the first occurance of the character T/t
This :
for(i=0;i<str.length;i++){
let char=str[i];
if(isNaN(char*1)&&char==char.toUpperCase()){
y=str.indexOf(char);
console.log(char,y)
}
}
would produce the capital letters, and their indexes but will only display the first occurrence of the character in question. I feel pretty confident that the part I am missing is a for() loop in order to move the index iteration..but it escapes me.
Thank you in advance!

You can use a regex:
It matches any non-whitespace character followed by a capital letter and replaces it by the two characters with a space between.
const str = "thisIsThisTuesday Day";
const newstr = str.replace(/([^ ])([A-Z])/g, "$1 $2");
console.log(newstr);

You can use the following regular expression:
/(?<=\S)(?=[A-Z])/g
The replace will insert spaced between characters which are non-space followed by a capital letter.
See example below:
let str = "thisIsThisTuesday Day";
const res = str.replace(/(?<=\S)(?=[A-Z])/g, ' ');
console.log(res);
Note: As pointed out ?<= (positive lookbehind) is currently not be available in all browsers.

Actually, the String.indexOf function can take a second argument, specifying the character it should start searching from. Take a look at: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/indexOf
But, if you just want to find all capital letters and prefix them with a space character, if one is not found, there are many approaches, for example:
var str = "thisIsThisTuesday Day";
var ret = '';
for (var i=0; i<str.length; i++) {
if (str.substr(i, 1) == str.substr(i, 1).toUpperCase()) {
if ((i > 0) && (str.substr(i - 1,1) != " "))
ret += " ";
}
ret += str.substr(i,1);
}
After running this, ret will hold the value "this Is This Tuesday Day"

You could iterate over the string and check if each character is a capital. Something like this:
const s = 'thisIsThisTuesday Day';
const format = (s) => {
let string = '';
for (let c of s) {
if (c.match(/[A-Z]/)) string += ' ';
string += c;
}
return string;
};
console.log(format(s));
Or alternatively with reduce function:
const s = 'thisIsThisTuesday Day';
const format = (s) => s.split('').reduce((acc, c) => c.match(/[A-Z]/) ? acc + ` ${c}` : acc + c, '');
console.log(format(s));

put dash after every n character during input from keyboard

$('.creditCardText').keyup(function() {
var foo = $(this).val().split("-").join(""); // remove hyphens
if (foo.length > 0) {
foo = foo.match(new RegExp('.{1,4}', 'g')).join("-");
}
$(this).val(foo);
});
I found this tutorial on putting dash after every 4 character from here my question is what if the character interval is not constant like in this example it is only after every 4 what if the interval is 3 characters "-" 2 characters "-" 4 characters "-" 3 characters "-" so it would appear like this 123-12-1234-123-123.

In this case, it is more convenient to just write normal code to solve the problem:
function format(input, format, sep) {
var output = "";
var idx = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < format.length && idx < input.length; i++) {
output += input.substr(idx, format[i]);
if (idx + format[i] < input.length) output += sep;
idx += format[i];
}
output += input.substr(idx);
return output;
}
Sample usage:
function format(input, format, sep) {
var output = "";
var idx = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < format.length && idx < input.length; i++) {
output += input.substr(idx, format[i]);
if (idx + format[i] < input.length) output += sep;
idx += format[i];
}
output += input.substr(idx);
return output;
}
$('.creditCardText').keyup(function() {
var foo = $(this).val().replace(/-/g, ""); // remove hyphens
// You may want to remove all non-digits here
// var foo = $(this).val().replace(/\D/g, "");
if (foo.length > 0) {
foo = format(foo, [3, 2, 4, 3, 3], "-");
}
$(this).val(foo);
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input class="creditCardText" />
While it is possible to do partial matching and capturing with regex, the replacement has to be done with a replacement function. In the replacment function, we need to determine how many capturing group actually captures some text. Since there is no clean solution with regex, I write a more general function as shown above.

You can split it using a regular expression. In this case, I'm using a expression to check for non-spaces with interval 3-2-4-3.
The RegExp.exec will return with a "match" array, with the first element containing the actual string. After removing the first element of the match, you can then join them up with dashes.
var mystring = "123121234123"
var myRegexp = /^([^\s]{3})([^\s]{2})([^\s]{4})([^\s]{3})$/g
var match = myRegexp.exec(mystring);
if (match)
{
match.shift();
mystring = match.join("-")
console.log(mystring)
}

Per further comments, the op clarified they need a fixed interval for when to insert dashes. In that case, there are several ways to implement it; I think regular expression would probably be the worst, in other words, overkill and overly complication solution.
Some simpler options would be to create a new character array, and in a loop append character by character, adding a dash too every time you get to the index you want. This would probably be the easiest to write and grok after the fact, but a little more verbose.
Or you could convert to a character array and use an 'insert into array at index'-type function like splice() (see Insert Item into Array at a Specific Index or Inserting string at position x of another string for some examples).

Pass the input value and the indexes to append the separator, first, it will remove the existing separators then just append separators on positions indexes.
export function addSeparators(
input: string,
positions: number[],
separator: string
): string {
const inputValue = input.replace(/-/g, '').split(''); // remove existing separators and split characters into array
for (let i = 0; i < inputValue.length; i++) {
if (positions.includes(i)) inputValue.splice(i, 0, separator);
}
return inputValue.join('');
}

How can I parse a string in Javascript?

I have string looking like this:
01
02
03
99
I'd like to parse these to make them into strings like:
1. 2. 3. 99. etc.
The numbers are a maximum of 2 characters. Also I have to parse some more numbers later in the source string so I would like to learn the substring equivalent in javascript. Can someone give me advice on how I can do. Previously I had been doing it in C# with the following:
int.Parse(RowKey.Substring(0, 2)).ToString() + "."
Thanks

Why, parseInt of course.
// Add 2 until end of string
var originalA = "01020399";
for (var i = 0; i < originalA.length; i += 2)
{
document.write(parseInt(originalA.substr(i, 2), 10) + ". ");
}
// Split on carriage returns
var originalB = "01\n02\n03\n99";
var strArrayB = originalB.split("\n");
for (var i = 0; i < strArrayB.length; i++)
{
document.write(parseInt(strArrayB[i], 10) + ". ");
}
// Replace the leading zero with regular expressions
var originalC = "01\n02\n03\n99";
var strArrayC = originalC.split("\n");
var regExpC = /^0/;
for (var i = 0; i < strArrayC.length; i++)
{
document.write(strArrayC[i].replace(regExpC, "") + ". ");
}
The other notes are that JavaScript is weakly typed, so "a" + 1 returns "a1". Additionally, for substrings you can choose between substring(start, end) and substr(start, length). If you're just trying to pull a single character, "abcdefg"[2] will return "c" (zero-based index, so 2 means the third character). You usually won't have to worry about type-casting when it comes to simple numbers or letters.
http://jsfiddle.net/mbwt4/3/

use parseInt function.
parseInt(09) //this will give you 9
var myString = parseInt("09").toString()+". "+parseInt("08").toString();

string = '01\n02\n03\n99';
array = string.split('\n');
string2 = '';
for (i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
array[i] = parseInt(array[i]);
string2 += array[i] + '. ';
}
document.write(string2);

var number = parseFloat('0099');
Demo

Substring in JavaScript works like this:
string.substring(from, to);
where from is inclusive and to is exclusive. You can also use slice:
string.slice(from, to)
where from is inclusive and to is exclusive. The difference between slice and substring is with slice you can specify negative numbers. For example, from = -1 indicates the last character. from(-1, -3) would give you the last 2 characters of the string.
With both methods if you don't specify end then you will get all the characters to the end.
Paul

Ii they are always 2 digits how about;
var s = "01020399";
var result = []
for (var i = 0; i < s.length; i+=2)
result.push(parseInt(s.substr(i, 2), 10) + ".")
alert( result[2] ) // 3.
alert( result.join(" ") ) // 1. 2. 3. 99.

How do i get numbers from this string?

i have this string:
var s = 'http://xxxxxxx.xxx/abcd123456789?abc=1';
how do i get digits 123456789 (between "d" and "?") ?
these digits may vary. the number of digits may vary as well.
How do i get them?? Regex? Which one?

try
'http://xxxxxxx.xxx/abcd123456789?abc=1'.match(/\d+(?=\?)/)[0];
// ^1 or more digits followed by '?'

Try
var regexp = /\/abcd(\d+)\?/;
var match = regexp.exec(input);
var number = +match[1];

Are the numbers always between "abcd" and "?"?
If so, then you can use substring():
s.substring(s.indexOf('abcd'), s.indexOf('?'))
If not, then you can just loop through character by character and check if it's numeric:
var num = '';
for (var i = 0; i < s.length; i++) {
var char = s.charAt(i);
if (!isNaN(char)) {
num += char;
}
}

Yes, regex is the right answer. You'll have something like this:
var s = 'http://xxxxxxx.xxx/abcd123456789?abc=1';
var re = new RegExp('http\:\/\/[^\/]+\/[^\d]*(\d+)\?');
re.exec(s);
var digits = $1;

how to parse string to int in javascript

i want int from string in javascript how i can get them from
test1 , stsfdf233, fdfk323,
are anyone show me the method to get the integer from this string.
it is a rule that int is always in the back of the string.
how i can get the int who was at last in my string

var s = 'abc123';
var number = s.match(/\d+$/);
number = parseInt(number, 10);
The first step is a simple regular expression - \d+$ will match the digits near the end.
On the next step, we use parseInt on the string we've matched before, to get a proper number.

You can use a regex to extract the numbers in the string via String#match, and convert each of them to a number via parseInt:
var str, matches, index, num;
str = "test123and456";
matches = str.match(/\d+/g);
for (index = 0; index < matches.length; ++index) {
num = parseInt(matches[index], 10);
display("Digit series #" + index + " converts to " + num);
}
Live Example
If the numbers really occur only at the ends of the strings or you just want to convert the first set of digits you find, you can simplify a bit:
var str, matches, num;
str = "test123";
matches = str.match(/\d+/);
if (matches) {
num = parseInt(matches[0], 10);
display("Found match, converts to: " + num);
}
else {
display("No digits found");
}
Live example
If you want to ignore digits that aren't at the end, add $ to the end of the regex:
matches = str.match(/\d+$/);
Live example

var str = "stsfdf233";
var num = parseInt(str.replace(/\D/g, ''), 10);

var match = "stsfdf233".match(/\d+$/);
var result = 0; // default value
if(match != null) {
result = parseInt(match[0], 10);
}

Yet another alternative, this time without any replace or Regular Expression, just one simple loop:
function ExtractInteger(sValue)
{
var sDigits = "";
for (var i = sValue.length - 1; i >= 0; i--)
{
var c = sValue.charAt(i);
if (c < "0" || c > "9")
break;
sDigits = c + sDigits;
}
return (sDigits.length > 0) ? parseInt(sDigits, 10) : NaN;
}
Usage example:
var s = "stsfdf233";
var n = ExtractInteger(s);
alert(n);

This might help you
var str = 'abc123';
var number = str.match(/\d/g).join("");

Use my extension to String class :
String.prototype.toInt=function(){
return parseInt(this.replace(/\D/g, ''),10);
}
Then :
"ddfdsf121iu".toInt();
Will return an integer : 121

First positive or negative number:
"foo-22bar11".match(/-?\d+/); // -22

javascript:alert('stsfdf233'.match(/\d+$/)[0])
Global.parseInt with radix is overkill here, regexp extracted decimal digits already and rigth trimmed string